His book a bomb, his syllable a bullet, his spirit Nasreddin: The last tough guy of the Republic, Professor Yalçın Küçük

Another one of our professors has left us.

Professor Yalçın Küçük was not just an academic; he was also a traditional middle-play actor and a storyteller in a fur hat.

I had the opportunity to meet Professor Yalçın.

We even took a picture together.

His phone battery had died, so he used mine.

I still remember how delighted he was while recounting how airport taxi drivers protested and refused to take our Nobel-winning author, who insulted his own country by calling it genocidal, into their cars.

The mystery of the method he used when explaining his lectures from the podium to the public outside the campus will, I am sure, find its embodiment at his funeral.

This departure is, of course, a physical one.

Thanks to new technologies and social media, intellectuals as rare as Professor Yalçın will be among us for generations to come.

Whenever modern Turkey, the Republic, and the Atatürk Reforms face difficulties, we will access Professor Yalçın's ideas on current events with the help of his codes on social media.

Artificial Intelligence Decision Support Systems will update the ciphers of today's ideas, his forward-looking answers to various topics, and his proposed solutions.

He opened a front with his intellectual resistance against the efforts of NATO to divert modern Turkey from the path of civilization, in a Turkey that was quite battered during the Cold War—though, is there any country that wasn't?

While Professor Yalçın was trying to spread his ideas and warn the public in the 90s through magazines with extremely limited readerships like Yeni Harman, Gürkan Hacır's "Pens and Swords" program on the Sky Türk channel significantly increased his audience.

In the 2000s, he was thrown back into the fray he was already accustomed to during his battle with the FETÖ members from Pennsylvania.

On March 10, 2014, upon his release from Silivri Prison, where he was held as part of the Ergenekon case, following the expiration of his 5-year detention period and the court's release decision, Yalçın Küçük made a sharp statement declaring that he would never surrender to the enemies of the Republic and the FETÖ members.

A statement similar to how, whenever he slammed his hand on the table during his television programs, the ratings would hit the ceiling.

Just like how he would throw his books around the studio, calling them bombs.

In these outbursts, his red scarf was the representative of his connection to the national struggle, which could not go unnoticed.

Perhaps I will always remember my professor for his resemblance to Lenin, likely due to his Caucasian roots.

I will also smile as I remember how, with his wit, he would knock out on television screens the foreign secret service-affiliated liberal journalists and so-called intellectuals who refueled in the taverns of Cihangir, as well as all sorts of incompetent, pure-bred idiot FETÖ members whose evolutionary problems were evident from the corners of their eyes and their sunken prefrontal cortices.